Environmental Assessment
Volume A-6
Introduction
Consultation
6.3.1
National Level Government
Madagascar’s EA process is managed by ONE, which issues any eventual
environmental permit. ONE is supported, specifically in relation to the project,
by the Ministries of Environment, Water and Forests; Energy and Mines;
Transport and Public Works; and Industry, as those most heavily implicated in
project permitting, as well as by other ministries and agencies of government
with interests in specific potential project impacts that fall within their areas of
responsibilities. These would include for example the National Association for
the Management of Protected Areas (ANGAP), the Vice Prime Minister’s Office,
Ministry of Energy and Mines, Madagascar Rail, and others as the project is
advised by ONE and the CTE. National level government is also a stakeholder by
virtue of its responsibility for the economic and social wellbeing of the people of
Madagascar.
6.3.2
Regional and Local Government
Madagascar is split into 22 regions. Mangoro-Alaotra and Atsinanana are the
main regions in the project area. The government of the Province of Toamasina,
within which all components of the project are located, and governments at the
prefet, sous-prefet and commune levels are also stakeholders. In addition, the
Committee for Regional Development for the Mangoro region is a stakeholder.
These levels of government have responsibility for economic and social
development within their areas of jurisdiction. Other regional level stakeholders
are the
Plateforme de Gestion du Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena,
provincial
representatives of national level ministries such as CIREF/DIREEF Moramanga
and Toamasina, the municipal government of the City of Toamasina, and the port
authority in Toamasina. Project mitigation and benefit enhancement will be
integrated with existing development planning, specifically for the town of
Toamasina, the Mangoro Region and at the commune level, but also with respect
to government participation in infrastructure development related to the project.
6.3.3
Civil Society
Civil society organizations are stakeholders insofar as they are able to inform on
EA issues and as they represent potential partners in the development and
implementation of both environmental and social management and monitoring
plans.
International and national environmental and social development NGOs, some
with offices not only in Antananarivo but also in Moramanga and Toamasina, are
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